ADAM BEAM
Associated Press
SACRAMENTO (AP) — Facing major disruptions across nearly all economic sectors because of the coronavirus, California officials on Friday sent the public a postcard from the state's rosier past: The January jobs report.
The report shows a roaring California economy that added 21,400 new jobs, building on the state's remarkable 10-year run of continuous economic expansion.
But context from the past two days — including Gov. Gavin Newsom's executive order that has closed schools, conferences and Disneyland — demands a different interpretation.
"California's monthly job numbers this morning are from a California economy that now seems like the distant past — January 2020," wrote Michael Bernick, a former director of the California Employment Development
